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...called Minuteman Project, a group of hundreds of volunteers watching the Arizona-Texas border because they believe the federal government isn't doing enough to stop illegal immigration: "I understand their frustrations as ranchers and so on, but we're actually having to spend federal resources watching them as well. There is no easy way for private citizens to deal with this. It's not a long term solution...
...world of real missiles that Nixon conjures up is one he has never visited. Some of that world lies in Montana, where 200 Minuteman missiles are planted in 23,000 sq. mi. of flat farmland extending from the middle of the state to the northern Rockies. Spread out at good distances from one another are 150 Minuteman IIs and 50 Minuteman IIIs, representing 20% of the total 1,000-lCBM force to which Nixon referred. A Minuteman III travels at more than 15,000 m.p.h. at an altitude of 700 miles. Flying over the Pole, it can reach its target...
...Minuteman Ills are under the immediate control of the "launch facility" called Tango Zero. Tango is situated on a farm 80 miles northwest of Great Falls. Aboveground the launch facility appears to be an elongated, plain, fenced-in house. Belowground lie two connected "capsules," rooms shaped like medicine capsules; one is the equipment room, the other, sealed behind an 8'/2-ton blast door, is the room where a two-man crew, sitting at two separate "status consoles," receives messages and stares at boards of lights. On June 6 this year, the command crew was 1st Lieut. Donald R. ("Skip") MacKinnon...
...Simcox, fed up with what he sees as government inaction in the face of lawlessness and a threat to national security, plans to do something about it. As head of a two-year-old group called the Civil Homeland Defense Corps, he is spearheading a new Minuteman Project that will place volunteers at quarter-mile intervals to watch a busy 50-mile stretch of border for the entire month of April. The goal, he says, is not to confront migrants but to monitor and report their locations to the U.S. Border Patrol...
...like Simcox's "immigrant hunters," and President Bush said last week, "I'm against vigilantes." Jennifer Allen of the Border Action Network says she is preparing a human-rights complaint against the U.S. government for "failing to prosecute vigilante groups." Local officials in Arizona are nervous about hundreds of Minuteman volunteers coming from out of state, and Michael Nicely, head of the Border Patrol's Tucson sector, says the Minuteman Project will "hamper border safety...